Unfucking believable.....just when I thought Democraps couldn't get even lower, they just did by asking for donations using the Newtown massacre and Obamination's "sympathy" to give money to the jackass machine.

Unfucking believable.....just when I thought Democraps couldn't get even lower, they just did by asking for donations using the Newtown massacre and Obamination's "sympathy" to give money to the jackass machine.

Its an obama site. Are they not supposed to post video's there? There is a donte button on every page. Just like there is an Obama binden link to the home page. Just like there is a sign on box on every page as well.

Newtown overwhelmed by media17 December 2012 - News trucks line the streets near Sandy Hook Elementary

"Go home, please, go home, all of you." The man standing in front of me in the lobby of my hotel was not in the slightest bit aggressive, but he was very clear. "It's unbearable. What do you all want? I know four or five of the families who lost kids and it's too much for them, with all the media here. What do you all want?" Most of the rest of the lobby - and much of the hotel - was taken up by notebook-wielding, fleece-wearing, camera-toting journalists. But that's just the start. The village of Sandy Hook, the centre of which is little more than a crossroads, has been transformed.

A changed town

It seems like a nice place - a classic little New England village, with white wooden houses and good-looking shops. But it is difficult to know what it is actually like because, early on Saturday, it had been transformed into a set, a backdrop for the vast swarm of journalists that had descended on the place. The main street, Church Hill Road, that leads towards Sandy Hook Elementary school, was grinding with bumper-to-bumper cars that it is difficult to imagine are there every - or any - day. In the small car park in front of the Methodist church, satellite trucks belted out noise and exhaust fumes; up and down the street cameramen roamed, filming the traffic, filming the shops, filming each other.

At the bottom of Church Hill Road, where the hill begins to climb up toward the firehouse and the school, there were more satellite trucks and live positions for television correspondents. On Saturday a few shops had pinned notices to their doors, and one or two lampposts had messages of sorrow and condolence. Today, a shrine of candles and teddy bears and messages attracts a steady flow of visitors, many filmed and interviewed by the omnipresent camera crews. Up by the firehouse, by the sign for Sandy Hill Elementary School ("Visitors Welcome"), there are more TV live positions. In the overflow area are dozens and dozens and dozens more satellite vans.

Newtown shootings: How do you explain murder to a child?18 December 2012 - The Connecticut school shootings have shocked the world. How should parents explain the massacre to their children?

It's something that all decent people will struggle to make sense of - the killing of 20 pupils and six adults by a gunman at an elementary school. But around the world, parents have had to explain the inexplicable to their children. In an age of rolling news, even the most disturbing tragedies can be impossible for all but the very young to escape. And given that so many victims of the Newtown massacre were six and seven years old, many parents will feel it's important to reassure their own offspring that they are loved and safe.

KJ Dell'Antonia, the lead writer for the New York Times's Motherlode blog, has four children aged between 11 and six. She judged their age meant it was impossible to shield them from bad news. "If my kids were three- or four-year-old pre-schoolers I probably wouldn't have done it," says Dell'Antonia, who lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. But she felt it was important they learned about the massacre from their mother rather than their classmates, whose accounts might be prone to exaggeration. "I didn't want them to come home and say, 'I heard about this.'"

Dell'Antonia says her approach was to be straightforward and not impose her own reaction on them. "You need to be matter of fact and just answer the questions," she adds. Talking about it won't traumatise a child, says Richard Meiser-Stedman, a clinical psychologist specialising in childhood trauma. Children may hear about it and some "thinking it through" is entirely normal for them, he says. "So they might be worried but they might be more worried if they hear about it and no-one talks about it. "Children do think about these things. Often they want to understand what is going on in the world, and trying to sweep it under the carpet and pretend things aren't happening is unhelpful."

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